[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 23, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34145-34146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16682]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 30-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 183--Austin, Texas, Application for Expansion 
and Request for Manufacturing Authority (Servers and Work Stations)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Foreign-Trade Zone of Central Texas, Inc., 
grantee of FTZ 183, requesting authority to expand its zone in the 
Austin, Texas area, and requesting on behalf of Dell Computer 
Corporation, authority to manufacture servers and workstations under 
zone procedures within FTZ 183 (Austin Customs port of entry). The 
application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-
Trade Zones Act, as amended, (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations 
of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on June 11, 1998.
    FTZ 183 was approved on December 23, 1991 (Board Order 550, 57 FR 
42, 1/2/92). The zone currently consists of seven sites in the Austin, 
Texas area:
    Site 1--Austin Enterprise site (317 acres), consisting of seven 
parcels within the Austin Enterprise Zone Area along Highway 290 and 
the Ben White Boulevard-Montopolis Drive area, Austin;
    Site 2--Balcones Research site (50 acres), located in north central 
Austin at the intersection of Burnett Road and Longhorn Boulevard;
    Site 3--High Tech Corridor site (762 acres), consisting of ten 
parcels located along I-35, 14 miles north of downtown Austin (site 
straddles Austin-Round Rock city line);
    Site 4--Cedar Park site (122 acres), some eight miles northwest of 
the Austin city limits, in Williamson County;
    Site 5--Round Rock ``SSC'' site (246 acres), consisting of two 
parcels located along I-35 between Chandler Road and Westinghouse Road 
on the northern edge of the City of Round Rock;
    Site 6--Georgetown site (246 acres), located along I-35 and U.S. 
81, south of downtown Georgetown;
    Site 7--San Marcos site (40 acres), located within the San Marcos 
Municipal Airport facility in eastern San Marcos, adjacent to State 
Highway 21, on the Hays County/Caldwell County line.
    (An expansion request (Doc. 63-97) is currently pending with the 
FTZ Board to expand FTZ 183 to include the MET Center industrial park 
(200 acres) located between U.S. Highway 183 South and State Highway 71 
East in southeast Austin.)
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 3 to 
include 574 acres approximately two miles south of the High-Tech 
Corridor site, just east of I-35 on Parmer Lane in the City of Austin 
(Travis County) near the Williamson County border. This proposed 
expansion will expand the site to 1,336 acres.
    The application also requests authority on behalf of Dell Computer 
Corporation to manufacture servers and workstations within FTZ 183 
(within the proposed expansion area). Dell is already authorized to 
manufacture computers and related products, including servers and 
workstations, under zone procedures within Subzone 183A. Dell is 
building a 300,000 square foot facility (the ``Enterprise Systems 
Facility'') within the proposed Site 3 expansion area, and plans to 
transfer a portion of its manufacturing operations to the new 
facilities to meet requirements for additional capacity required by its 
growing server and workstation businesses. This proposal does not 
request any new manufacturing authority under FTZ procedures in terms 
of products or components, but it does involve a proposed increase in 
Dell's level of production under FTZ procedures within the FTZ 183 
project overall corresponding to the proposed increase in facilities.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period 
for their receipt is August 24, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to September 8, 1998).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
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for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center 1700 Congress, 
2nd Floor, Austin, TX 78711
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 12, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-16682 Filed 6-22-98; 8:45 am]
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